Dear Gen Z:

This is actually called "going on vacation," not "micro-retirement," and you did not invent it.

Sincerely,

Gen X

For my first BlueSky post, I want to say something about submission cycles. On January 13, Scholastica tweeted that "Spring submission season will be here before you know it." Twelve days before that tweet, on Jan. 1, I finally finished my Summer 2025 writing project, and I logged into ...